See money will buy a house, but it won't buy you a home.
It'll buy you a companion but it won't buy you a friend,
it'll buy you a good time, but it won't buy you a peace of mind.
It'll buy you a bed, but it won't buy you a good night's sleep.
Now, here's something rather fascinating.
The more of the things you have that money won't buy
will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.
Develop the attitude of exuberance, develop the attitude of men alive,
“there are things I can do now to make it better”.
Find opportunity because it's out there, it comes knocking on a lot of doors and many
times we don't just open the door.
Now, let me emphasize a point.
In order to be totally and completely, phenomenally successful,
you're going to need a big frying pan.
Now, I don't know if you recognize the name gentleman, Jim Corbett.
He was a former heavyweight champion of the world, he loved to fish.
One morning he was out doing his roadwork and he noticed there was a fisherman at this
lake he was running around and the fisherman was having a fisherman's
dream.
I mean, he’d cast out and pull in, he'd cast out and pull in.
But Corbett noticed something, he noticed that he was keeping the little
fish and throwing the big ones back.
So he ran over to him and said, “Sir, I'm a fisherman myself, but I've never
seen anybody do what you doing, why are you keeping the little fish and throwing
the big ones back?”
“What on earth are you doing?”
The fisherman certainly shook his head and said,
“Oh, man, you can't know how badly I hate to do this, but I don't have
any choice”.
“You see, all I've got is just this little old bitty frying pan”.
Let me tell you something, God didn't make little frying pans.
Many times people would say, “well, I've just got that little frying
pan and besides, don't give me such a big dream, just give
me a little one, I'm just a little guy, just let me survive,
don't give me the big one”.
But the optimistic attitude driven person will say when they got that big idea,
“if I don't take advantage of it, somebody else will discover it and do that”.
How many times have I encountered people who say,
“you know, I had that idea years ago and I really knew it was a good one,
but I just didn't have the courage to go ahead”.
What I'm really saying is, look, you were designed for accomplishment, you're
intended for success, you're endowed with the seeds of greatness.
Get involved in yourself.
Take that attitude of gratitude, take that positive attitude,
continue to educate yourself and grow all the time.
Psychologists said, Amstetter says, “you cannot change from a negative perspective
to a positive perspective without changing the input in what you're
putting in your mind”.
It affects every one of your relationships, it affects every one of your performances,
it affects everything in your life.
So above all things, you know, the proverbs say,
“Protect your mind, protect your heart, because out of it come the issues of life”.
Put in the good, the clean, the pure, the powerful, the positive.
Associate with good people, think in terms of how you can increase your
performance, how you can be a better husband, a better
wife, a better mom, a better dad.
Start putting it all together and when you do that balance comes in your
life.
And with balance, when you have the right priorities,
then it really does make a huge difference in your life.
In my opinion, the number one attitude that we would need to have
is the attitude of gratitude.
And Selye, the great stress specialist said, “gratitude is the healthiest of all of our
human emotions”, it's an absolute fact that the more you express
gratitude for what you have, the more you will have to express gratitude
for.
It's also a fact that the more you complain about your problems,
the more problems you'll have to complain about.
Incidentally, what I do before I verbalize anything,
write anything or record anything, I validate it psychologically, theologically
and physiologically.
Because we are physical, mental and spiritual and if you don't deal with all of life,
you're not going to be able to get all that life has to offer.
And gratitude is a marvelous attitude and a wonderful starting point
for getting more of the good things out of life that are important.
I often say that success is measured by some of the things you have,
that money will buy, but all of the things that money won't buy.
See money will buy a house, but it won't buy you a home.
It'll buy you a companion but won't buy you a friend,
it'll buy you a good time, but it won't buy you a peace of mind,
it'll buy you a bed, but it won't buy you a good night's sleep.
Now here is something rather fascinating, the more of the things you have that money
won't buy will enable you to get more of the things
that money will buy.
And that's a fact, now, money is important, but it's not the
most important thing in life, but is reasonably close to oxygen.
I mean, when you need it, you know you need it.
And if anybody says, ”I am not interested in money”, go lie about other things,
but just don't ever fall in love with money, the other things are more important by far.
When you go out in life looking for friends, they'll be scarce,
but if you go out in life to be a friend, they'll be everywhere.
Because what you send out is exactly what you get back.
The message simply is that be careful about what you're sending
out unless you want to get it back yourself.
And most people like to get excitement, enthusiasm and motivation back,
so send it out and you'll get it back, that's a fact.